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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem A. 2009 Apr 23;113(16):4075–4093. doi: 10.1021/jp8104425

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Rotational potential of trans-stilbene as obtained from a relaxed (ϕ1, ϕ2) scan calculation with a step of 10° at our standard computational level; Note that, despite the flatness of the potential in the vicinity of the equilibrium structure, there exists a slight bias toward the nonplanar pseudoconformers of trans-stilbene which possess a quasi-C2 symmetry (ϕ1 ≈ ϕ2).